Howard Kurtz is a media reporter, right? I mean, that’s his job, correct? It’s how he describes himself anyway, and what he poses as at CNN and the Daily Beast and the Daily Download; and I’m sure at soirees at three-story brownstones throughout the Northeast.

If that’s his beat, and from what I’ve read he’s paid a sweet $600k at the Daily Beast alone to work it, wouldn’t you think he would get excited over something that might give him a sweeter than sweet opportunity to ply his trade?

Couldn’t Kroft have asked a few more substantive, issue-oriented questions; or is that not what people want to hear?

And by “people,” Kurtz means who exactly…? The people he hangs with — you know at the Daily Beast and CNN?

Provincial much?

Now maybe somewhere there’s a cocktail napkin loaded with Kurtzian outrage over ABC’s Martha Raddatz and CBS’s Steve Kroft playing Kevin Bacon for the Democratic Party….

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…but unless I missed it, Kurtz instead chose to play Kevin Bacon for the institution he’s supposed to be reporting on:

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But what did Kurtz rabidly watchdog yesterday? A conservative commentator choosing to exit Fox News. You know, because media folks who are open about their biases need much more watchdoging than those who pose as objective. Yes, that’s right, Kurtz jumped in the media school of media fish to excitedly write yet another chapter of: Palin Is So Freakin’ Over This Time — No Really, This Time It’s Again Fer Real.

Six-hundred thousand dollars a year to write the same story the rest of the media you’re supposed to cover is writing…?

What a sweet racket Kurtz created for himself. He carves out a niche as a media watchdog, which gives you the impression that someone is watchdogging the media, when in reality he’s just one of the frat boys — swimming with the tide, never rocking the boat, letting Niedermeyer chap his heiney.